Xue Muqiao | |
|---|---|
| 薛暮桥 | |
| Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection | |
| In office November 1949 – 31 March 1955 Serving with Wang Congwu, An Ziwen, Qiang Ying, Liu Lantao, Xie Juezai, Li Baohua, Liu Jingfan, Liang Hua & Feng Naichao | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 October 1904 Wuxi, Jiangsu, Qing China |
| Died | 22 July 2005 (aged 100) Beijing, China |
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party |
Xue Muqiao (Chinese: 薛暮桥; pinyin: Xuē Mùqiáo; 25 October 1904 – 22 July 2005) was an eminent Chinese economist and politician. He was instrumental in introducing and implementing economic reforms that transformed China into a socialist market economy by participating in the development of the ideological concept of a primary stage of socialism.
Xue was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province as Xue Yulin (薛雨林). He served as the director of the National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China in the 1950s. He was a fellow of Chinese Academy of Sciences and a member of the Chinese Communist Party. In 2005, Xue received the first Outstanding Achievement Award of Economics in China.